FARM butcher Geoff Broomhall from Nantwich is starring in his own version of The Italian Job.

A group of Italian gourmets, on a twin-town tour of Cheshire, visited the Great Tasting Meat Company at Gate Farm, Poole to sample the best of British food.

And Geoff, who runs the award-winning farm butchery, took advantage of the occasion to swap sausage recipes with specialist Italian butcher Donato D’Aurizio from the top Michelin-rated region of Le Marche.

Now he is producing authentic Italian sausages – called appropriately “The Italian Job” – to add to his range of prize-winning bangers available from the farm shop in Nantwich.

Geoff said: “Unlike our traditional British sausages they contain garlic and are made with very lean cuts of pork and I am sure that they will quickly become very popular here in Cheshire.

“I also showed Donato how we make our sausages from outdoor-reared Gloucester Old Spot pork.”

The eight-strong group from Marzocca, including chefs and restaurateurs, were served a traditional English lunch of roast beef and pork accompanied by fresh-vegetables.

Instead of wine, farmer Andrew Jackson also laid on cask-conditioned Oak Beauty ale from the Woodland micro-brewery at Wrenbury.

The visitors also sampled the Wettenhall Road company’s gold-award sausages and the beef burgers that won the supreme champion award at the NEC in Birmingham.